Man, you’re really stretching it. The phrase “before the beginning of time” is so allegorical. It means “always” much more than it means Big Bang theory.
Look, I grew up in a very religous family. I went to 16 years of private religiously-based schools before going on to graduate school. I know this stuff.
You are not going to be able to convince me that mainstream religion believed in an actual temporal beginning to the universe.
And even if you could, where was God before then? And what was he doing?
Well, you sure seem to have missed a lot of what most Christians I know accept as true.
Everything I’ve heard is that God is eternal, the material, physical universe is not, and not only does it have a beginning, but the universe as we know it will end someday, too.
LOL, Scripture clearly teaches a definitive beginning to the universe as we understand it. Try Gen 1:1.
If somebody who doesn't believe in God can't grasp Gen 1:1 after 16 years of immersion in that type of environment, he/she provides a marvelous testimony of how the Word of God is not without effect. To those who reject Him, their hearts are simply hardened.
Not to worry though, every person alive still has opportunity to return to Him prior to the first death and be blessed with eternal life and many ther blessings by Him resulting from just a smidgeon more faith than absolutely no simple faith alone through Christ alone.
God was chillin with the homies playing Madden ‘08